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Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778

1778

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

1784

Joseph Priestley LLD FRS

1782

Praeclarissimus Isaacus Newton Eques

1787

Chronometer watch in silver case by John Arnold and Son

hallmarked 1788

Hydrostatic balance by Jesse Ramsden, London, 1785-1789

1785-1789

Spoon with folding handle

1778

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

English wooden doll

circa 1780

Engraving of a demonstration to compare lightning conductor designs

1778-1780

Mrs. Sage

1785

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

1785

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Medal, 'Le Flesselles' Montgolfier balloon flight, Lyon, France, 19 January 1784

1784

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

1784

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Token, Anglesey halfpenny, Wales, 1788

1788

Token issued by John Wilkinson

1787

A view of the black-lead mine in Cumberland

1787

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Engraving, portrait, Pilatre de Rozier

1786

Engraving: Project d'une Travee en Fer de 300 pieds d'ouverture

1783

Medal, silver, commemorating Joseph Philip Dean 1780-1782

1782

Engraved plate from the European Magazine

1783

The Flying Ship

1786

Copper medal commemorating Thomas Le Vacher de la Feutrie as dean of Paris medical school 1779 to 1780

1780

Joseph Priestley

1788

Urania Coeli

1781

Engraving, Ascent of Mr. Lunardi's celebrated air balloon

1784

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

Mortar, stoneware, impressed "Wedgwood & Bentley" and "2"

1780

Dicas hydrometer with weights

1781

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

Silver medal commemorating the Maison Philanthropique de Versailles

1786

Du Globe Aerostatique

1785

Engraving : La Melancholie

1780

Portrait. J.R. Perronet. Engraving 1782

1782